A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianisme, independencie, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.
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A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianisme, independencie, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority.
Author
Gillespie, George, 1613-1648.
Publication
London :: Printed for Robert Bostock, at the King's Head in Pauls Church-yard,
MDCXLVII. [1647]
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Subject terms
Church of Scotland -- Government -- Early works to 1800.
Church of Scotland -- Clergy -- Early works to 1800.
Ordination -- Church of Scotland -- Early works to 1800.
Liberty of conscience -- Early works to 1800.
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"A form for Church government and ordination of ministers, contained in CXI propositions, propounded to the late Generall Assembly at Edinburgh, 1647. Together with an Act concerning Erastianisme, independencie, and liberty of conscience. Published by authority." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A86000.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 24, 2025.
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14. (Book 14)
For the asserting and defending of this suspension, there
is no small accession of strength from the nature of the Sacra∣ment
it self, and the institution and end thereof. The Word
of God indeed is to be Preached, as well to the ungodly and
impenitent that they may be converted, as to the Godly and
repenting, that they may be confirmed: But the Sacrament
of the Lords Supper is by God instituted, not for beginning
the Work of Grace, but for nourishing and increasing Grace,
and therefore none is to be admitted to the Lords Supper, who
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by his life testifieth that he is impenitent, and not as yet con∣verted.
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